Every singer-songwriter remembers the day their music first breaks national radio! And for me that happened this week on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social on The Folk Show featuring ‘My Dear Sister’ along with ‘The Poetry Train’ by Rowan McCabe from the album. Thank you Mark!

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It’s 5 years to the day that this little gem of a project came out.

Chaos & Solitude, my first solo album, written at a time when the world didn’t make much sense. And not a lot has changed…

Special offer: £7 if you purchase it digitally or CD (plus p&p)
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‘Passengers & Pioneers’ is out now! Feat. songs & North East poets celebrating 200 years of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the birth of the passenger railway.

Stream it:
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Buy a digital/hard copy:
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@railway200.bsky.social

Set the World on Track out now!

You can listen now on Spotify:
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And pre-save the album Passengers & Pioneers:
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You can also buy the single/album and the rest of the musical archive via Bandcamp:
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THIS MARCH BEGINS WITH A JOURNEY BACK IN TIME UNDER @samslatcher.bsky.social’S GUIDANCE. THE JOURNEY IS TITLED “SET THE WORLD ON TRACK” AND DIVES INTO THE LIVES OF OFTEN-FORGOTTEN PIONEERS IN SHILDON, WHO CREATED THE FIRST PASSENGER RAILWAY.

Stream on Spotify NOW

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Lovely to be back at Shildon Railway Institute last week with Alex Summerson & @lizzielovejoy.bsky.social for ‘The Streets that Made Shildon’, songs / poems from the streets built to serve the railways. @railway200 Thanks to
@nomorenowt.bsky.social & Northern Heartlands for supporting this.

Had the real privilege of performing at the launch of @lner.co.uk’s latest named train ‘DARLINGTON’

Named to celebrate 200 years since the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the birth of the modern railway.

Joined by Voices of Darlington choir, local schools & communities involved in the bicentenary.

Hello Bluesky!

Next year I’ll be releasing a new album ‘Passengers & Pioneers’ feat music & North East poets celebrating 200 years of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the world’s first public passenger railway.

#Railway200 #SDR200

Here’s the opening track: www.samslatcher.com/post/first-t...